Seriously? Here’s a guy who claims to have been attacked in the middle of the night by two white men in MAGA hats who told him “this is MAGA country” before roughing him up. That included, according to him, being taunted with racial and homophobic slurs (he is gay), having a noose placed around his neck and being drenched in bleach, sounds awful, right? His accusations led to a citywide dragnet to find the suspects, tying up a boatload resources and resulting in costs of over $130,000.
It also led to massive national media coverage of the story with a resultant tsunami of fawning support for him from a wide swath of elite liberal politicians and celebrities in since deleted posts.
This dragged on for months until he finally admitted that, because he was upset at his $100,000 per episode salary from TV show Empire, he hired two lowlifes to stage the fake hate crime pitching it as a MAGA attack.
He was brought up on charges only to be dropped by progressive firebrand Chicago DA Kim Foxx. But then he was prosecuted again and convicted and sentenced to 5 months behind bars for, as the judge described, a “disgraceful” scheme to fake a hate crime, as well as 30 months probation, a $25,000 fine and restitution of $125,000 to the City of Chicago. Justice James Linn handed down the sentence while adding, “You’re not the victim of a racist hate crime, you’re not the victim of a homophobic race crime, you’re just a charlatan pretending to be a victim of a hate crime and that’s shameful especially.
Now some nuts cut him loose again, “The state’s highest court did not weigh in on the merits of the case against Smollett, ruling only that his constitutional rights were violated when he was prosecuted a second time, after the original charges against him were dropped in 2019.
This was not a decision on the merits of the case – whether or not he’s guilty or not guilty, or he did it or he didn’t do it. This is strictly a constitutional decision saying this due process rights were violated by the way the system prosecuted him,”
In other words his constitutional rights were violated, how about the cops that wasted all their time, or the reporters chasing the case, or the families hoaxed into having endless conversations about this, and he’s skating away?
One thing you can be happy about, Charles Manson died in 2017, with this precedent California could have cut him loose because “technically” he was never at the murder scene, and never killed anybody, don’t think they wouldn’t consider it, there are plenty of nuts in Cali, too!
